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Comparisons in International Indigenous Education

Yesterday we looked at different models of indigenous PSE around the world. Today, we’re going to look at some differences in levels of indigenous PSE access. When we want to compare countries’ rates of access, we usually look at participation rates; that is, the percentage of people in a particular age group (usually 18-21) who attend PSE. But that doesn’t work well with indigenous students, who tend not to delay attendance until long after this “traditional” age. There is a

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March 16, 2012 1 Comment

The Heinous Difficulty in Understanding What Works

The empirical consensus on the question of barriers to access in Canadian education is pretty clear: and among those few secondary school graduates who don’t go on to post-secondary education, affordability is very much a secondary issue (not non-existent, but secondary). The primary issue is that most of these young people don’t feel very motivated by the idea of spending more years in a classroom. It’s a vicious circle: these students don’t identify with education, so they don’t work at

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February 29, 2012 2 Comments

Changing Cultures

A few months ago, HEQCO put together an interesting conference called Fear of Finance which examined the subject of financial literacy and PSE. Now, take this term “literacy” with a grain of salt: the evidence that improving students’ ability to understand compound interest or student aid rules is going to improve access to education is basically zero (though it might make those that do go to PSE better off during and after their studies, which is a good in and

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February 28, 2012 No Comments

Getting to Middle Class

Rick Santorum made a jibe the other day about President Obama being a snob “because he wants everyone to go to college.” Coming from a man with three degrees and whose 2006 Senate re-election platform said he wanted every Pennsylvanian to have access to a college education, it came across as less heartfelt anger than as a weird attempt to pander to working-class sentiment. Cynicism aside, it should be granted that college in the United States – well, everywhere really

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February 27, 2012 No Comments

Dumb, but Popular

I regularly give the Canadian Federation of Students a hard time for advocating policies which are objectively regressive. But fair play to them: in advocating these policies, they are reflecting the actual preferences of students themselves. A few years ago, we at HESA produced a wide-ranging student survey for a group of student associations. One of the questions asked and how students thought student aid should be awarded. While it would be improper to release results without authorization from a

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February 21, 2012 No Comments

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